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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

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Support JWT token authentication for BAW Container

Support JWT token verification for BAW Container On BAW VM version, TAI feature of Traditional WAS can be used for JWT token verification, need the same for BAW container version
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container

Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support Hot-keys to launch attended bots

Support users to use hot-keys to start attended bot's they have listed in launcher. A Default Hot-Key for each bot should be managed by administrators and users should have the ability to overwrite it locally to fit personal needs.
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Preview within Outlook NMO window

It would be nice to see a preview of the clicked e-mails in the Add-in window within Outlook (on the right side --> in another window below the folder structure). This is only needed for E-Mails.
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

BAW v23.02 version Process Admin console Health Management should revert back to old UI

BAW v23.02 version Process Admin console Health Management replace good UI with Swagger API tester UI, don't know the reason behind it. The old UI is much better in usability and feel. The Swagger UI doesn't look like product level quality and har...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The ‘marque select’ tool: improvement opportunity could be if you create your select window left to right, it selects only items fully in the select window; if your select action is right to left, it would select items partially in the select window. (not a big improvement as you can use Ctrl+click now)

The ‘marque select’ tool: improvement opportunity could be if you create your select window left to right, it selects only items fully in the select window; if your select action is right to left, it would select items partially in the select wind...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Under review

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really large maps)

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really l...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CMDB Connections via APIs to regularly update the systems glossary

CMDB Connections via APIs to regularly update the systems glossary. We’d like to have a regular automated refresh of our system glossary based on our updated CMDB list.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Needs more information

4. Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF

Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF. Both the PDF and in BWL when you zoom out on a large map. When zoomed out or printed, the font size on the...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review